Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bachelder, John E. (Mr.) October 23, 1942
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Lake Odessa Wave - Times - Octobelopfenstein.r 29, 1942
          FORMER LAKE O' MAN DIES IN GR. RAPIDS

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   John E. Bachelder, 48, of 1126 Jefferson avenue, S.E., Grand Rapids, owner of a
drug store at Division 
avenue and Hall street in that city died Friday at Pinecrest sanitarium.  He had
been ill six months with heart 
trouble.

   Mr. Bachelder was born at Lake Odessa, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bachelder who
formerly lived 
northeast of Lake Odessa.  John entered the drug business at Morley in 1915
following his completion of the 
pharmaceutical course at Big Rapids.  In 1920 he went to Grand Rapids and
established a drug store at 
Madison Square, where he later built the Bachelder block.

   He waas a member of East Congregational church.

   Surviving are the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Yvonne Fisher and Miss Wanda Lou
Bachelder; two sons, Jack 
and Robert; his parents, and a sister Mrs. Bertha Rice all of Grand Rapids. 

   Funeral services were held at the East Congregational church in Grand Rapids,
Monday afternoon, with the 
Rev. Charles W. Helsley, pastor of the church, officiating.  Burial was in Woodlawn
cemetery.

   Those from Lake Odessa who attended the services were Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Gilliland, Mr. and Mrs. Bert 
Lepard, C. F. Ernsberger, Mr. and Raymond Gilliland Mrs. Henry Groff,  Mr. and Mrs.
Shirley Groff, Mrs. DeVere 
C. Murray, Mrs. and Mrs. Calvin Nash and Mrs. and Mrs. Gaylord Klopfenstein         
    




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